I was able to install and run Linux 5.1 and FreeBSD 2.2.7 on the PIII
just fine.
However, when I attempted to install Linux 6.0 on the same machine (PIII)
I get this error message after the probe (both auto and expert modes):

I thought it maybe that it was because the partitions were not created
for Linux yet.
Since, when installing on the Athlons it would stop with the mount error
I did a test
install of Linux 5.1 on both Athlons; it also stopped during the
installation with the same
mount error. When doing a test install again of Linux 5.1 on the PIII it
stopped only to tell
me that no HDD was partition space was allocated for Linux - so that
meant it was "successful"
in be able to find a file system to mount.

So I am assuming that Linux 5.1 & 6.0 cannot be installed on an Athlon?
I even tried to install on the
Athlon 850 with the HDD formatted with FAT, and figured it would allow
me to reformat it. But, i should
have just deleted the partition and started over. But, in any case both
Linux installations give mount errors
on both Athlons and the PIII.

Does anyone out there have any idea of what is going on? RedHat Inc. has
denounced Linux 5.1/6.0 as
evil and banned to the nether regions of OS Hell; so they are not an
option for ANY assistance whatsoever
unless I pay them huge globs of money, and even then I won't get any
REAL help.

I bought 6.0 in 1999 when it came out and was never able to install it.
I would like to now and see if I rectify what, if anything , I was doing
wrong. Thanks in advance.

Paul James Chatman

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

J.O. Aho wrote: How many people do you see at the *.microsoft.* and *.windows.* newsgroups
asking about how to install Microsoft Windows 1.01 on their brand new computers?

You know there are people like that: me. I love the challenge. I'll
never forget the student who proved his p[rofessor wrong that couldn't
install evry OS made on one PC.
He did it and it blew my mind away to see the boot manager screen with
all those OSs living on one PC.

That aside, thanks. I should have just said Red Hat 5.1 etc. Anyway, I
had used RH 5.1 on the P3 and it worked great
and I had so much fun with it. Since RH is more interested in whoring
the kernel for profit (have you seen thier
website -- GOD!!)

J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using RedHat 6.0, I do not
recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security hazard and poorly supports
newer hardware.

I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released. I
never got 6.0
running so I was not aware of the issues it had thanks for that.

J.O. Aho wrote: Go to http://fedora.redhat.com and download a recent version of Fedora Core
(new name on the free RedHat).

Thanks, I'll check it out. But I may also check another Linux option.

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

NM Sees wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using
>> RedHat 6.0, I do not recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security
>> hazard and poorly supports newer hardware.
> I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released.

RH6.0 was never a good version, X.0 was a quite beta version, X.1 had
important fixes and version X.2 and later was stable.
If you want to test the last good RedHat version released, you should take a
look at RH7.3, it's rock solid, of course you should apply the updates
provided by RedHat, but it's no longer supported, so you will need to use
fedoralegacy.org updates on top of that, to get a almost up to date system.

With a little bit of googling you will be able to find how to upgrade kernel
2.4 to 2.5, the steps are the same if you want to upgrade to kernel 2.6, I
have myself run RedHat7.3 with kernel 2.6.16, glibc 2.3.5, gcc 3.1, XFree86
4.3 (and a lot more, all compiled with gcc3.1). It's quite a lot of work to
keep a such system up to date, which is why I did switch to another
distribution, but in a way I regret that I didn't stay with it, I was a lot
more active with my computers than I'm today.

I have some of my RPMs left that I made, but I do not have any track which are
for which stage of my major upgrade of RH7.3 and many packages are just
recompiled from the RawHide that later became to be RedHat9 and Fedora Core 1.

But if you really want to dig into things, then Linux from Scratch may be a
lot better option, as you will get a more sane setup than one that partly
depends on gcc2.96 and partly gcc3.1. See www.linuxfromscratch.org

--

//Aho

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

J.O. Aho wrote: How many people do you see at the *.microsoft.* and *.windows.* newsgroups
asking about how to install Microsoft Windows 1.01 on their brand new computers?

You know there are people like that: me. I love the challenge. I'll
never forget the student who proved his p[rofessor wrong that couldn't
install evry OS made on one PC.
He did it and it blew my mind away to see the boot manager screen with
all those OSs living on one PC.

That aside, thanks. I should have just said Red Hat 5.1 etc. Anyway, I
had used RH 5.1 on the P3 and it worked great
and I had so much fun with it. Since RH is more interested in whoring
the kernel for profit (have you seen thier
website -- GOD!!)

J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using RedHat 6.0, I do not
recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security hazard and poorly supports
newer hardware.

I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released. I
never got 6.0
running so I was not aware of the issues it had thanks for that.

J.O. Aho wrote: Go to http://fedora.redhat.com and download a recent version of Fedora Core
(new name on the free RedHat).

Thanks, I'll check it out. But I may also check another Linux option.

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

NM Sees wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using
>> RedHat 6.0, I do not recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security
>> hazard and poorly supports newer hardware.
> I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released.

RH6.0 was never a good version, X.0 was a quite beta version, X.1 had
important fixes and version X.2 and later was stable.
If you want to test the last good RedHat version released, you should take a
look at RH7.3, it's rock solid, of course you should apply the updates
provided by RedHat, but it's no longer supported, so you will need to use
fedoralegacy.org updates on top of that, to get a almost up to date system.

With a little bit of googling you will be able to find how to upgrade kernel
2.4 to 2.5, the steps are the same if you want to upgrade to kernel 2.6, I
have myself run RedHat7.3 with kernel 2.6.16, glibc 2.3.5, gcc 3.1, XFree86
4.3 (and a lot more, all compiled with gcc3.1). It's quite a lot of work to
keep a such system up to date, which is why I did switch to another
distribution, but in a way I regret that I didn't stay with it, I was a lot
more active with my computers than I'm today.

I have some of my RPMs left that I made, but I do not have any track which are
for which stage of my major upgrade of RH7.3 and many packages are just
recompiled from the RawHide that later became to be RedHat9 and Fedora Core 1.

But if you really want to dig into things, then Linux from Scratch may be a
lot better option, as you will get a more sane setup than one that partly
depends on gcc2.96 and partly gcc3.1. See www.linuxfromscratch.org

--

//Aho

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

J.O. Aho wrote: How many people do you see at the *.microsoft.* and *.windows.* newsgroups
asking about how to install Microsoft Windows 1.01 on their brand new computers?

You know there are people like that: me. I love the challenge. I'll
never forget the student who proved his p[rofessor wrong that couldn't
install evry OS made on one PC.
He did it and it blew my mind away to see the boot manager screen with
all those OSs living on one PC.

That aside, thanks. I should have just said Red Hat 5.1 etc. Anyway, I
had used RH 5.1 on the P3 and it worked great
and I had so much fun with it. Since RH is more interested in whoring
the kernel for profit (have you seen thier
website -- GOD!!)

J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using RedHat 6.0, I do not
recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security hazard and poorly supports
newer hardware.

I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released. I
never got 6.0
running so I was not aware of the issues it had thanks for that.

J.O. Aho wrote: Go to http://fedora.redhat.com and download a recent version of Fedora Core
(new name on the free RedHat).

Thanks, I'll check it out. But I may also check another Linux option.

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

NM Sees wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using
>> RedHat 6.0, I do not recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security
>> hazard and poorly supports newer hardware.
> I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released.

RH6.0 was never a good version, X.0 was a quite beta version, X.1 had
important fixes and version X.2 and later was stable.
If you want to test the last good RedHat version released, you should take a
look at RH7.3, it's rock solid, of course you should apply the updates
provided by RedHat, but it's no longer supported, so you will need to use
fedoralegacy.org updates on top of that, to get a almost up to date system.

With a little bit of googling you will be able to find how to upgrade kernel
2.4 to 2.5, the steps are the same if you want to upgrade to kernel 2.6, I
have myself run RedHat7.3 with kernel 2.6.16, glibc 2.3.5, gcc 3.1, XFree86
4.3 (and a lot more, all compiled with gcc3.1). It's quite a lot of work to
keep a such system up to date, which is why I did switch to another
distribution, but in a way I regret that I didn't stay with it, I was a lot
more active with my computers than I'm today.

I have some of my RPMs left that I made, but I do not have any track which are
for which stage of my major upgrade of RH7.3 and many packages are just
recompiled from the RawHide that later became to be RedHat9 and Fedora Core 1.

But if you really want to dig into things, then Linux from Scratch may be a
lot better option, as you will get a more sane setup than one that partly
depends on gcc2.96 and partly gcc3.1. See www.linuxfromscratch.org

--

//Aho

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

J.O. Aho wrote: How many people do you see at the *.microsoft.* and *.windows.* newsgroups
asking about how to install Microsoft Windows 1.01 on their brand new computers?

You know there are people like that: me. I love the challenge. I'll
never forget the student who proved his p[rofessor wrong that couldn't
install evry OS made on one PC.
He did it and it blew my mind away to see the boot manager screen with
all those OSs living on one PC.

That aside, thanks. I should have just said Red Hat 5.1 etc. Anyway, I
had used RH 5.1 on the P3 and it worked great
and I had so much fun with it. Since RH is more interested in whoring
the kernel for profit (have you seen thier
website -- GOD!!)

J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using RedHat 6.0, I do not
recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security hazard and poorly supports
newer hardware.

I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released. I
never got 6.0
running so I was not aware of the issues it had thanks for that.

J.O. Aho wrote: Go to http://fedora.redhat.com and download a recent version of Fedora Core
(new name on the free RedHat).

Thanks, I'll check it out. But I may also check another Linux option.

Re: ERROR MSG: Cannot open root device 08:21

NM Sees wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote: Assuming from your pick of newsgroups, you are using
>> RedHat 6.0, I do not recommend you to use it, it's buggy and a security
>> hazard and poorly supports newer hardware.
> I just want to use the last good version of RHL that was released.

RH6.0 was never a good version, X.0 was a quite beta version, X.1 had
important fixes and version X.2 and later was stable.
If you want to test the last good RedHat version released, you should take a
look at RH7.3, it's rock solid, of course you should apply the updates
provided by RedHat, but it's no longer supported, so you will need to use
fedoralegacy.org updates on top of that, to get a almost up to date system.

With a little bit of googling you will be able to find how to upgrade kernel
2.4 to 2.5, the steps are the same if you want to upgrade to kernel 2.6, I
have myself run RedHat7.3 with kernel 2.6.16, glibc 2.3.5, gcc 3.1, XFree86
4.3 (and a lot more, all compiled with gcc3.1). It's quite a lot of work to
keep a such system up to date, which is why I did switch to another
distribution, but in a way I regret that I didn't stay with it, I was a lot
more active with my computers than I'm today.

I have some of my RPMs left that I made, but I do not have any track which are
for which stage of my major upgrade of RH7.3 and many packages are just
recompiled from the RawHide that later became to be RedHat9 and Fedora Core 1.

But if you really want to dig into things, then Linux from Scratch may be a
lot better option, as you will get a more sane setup than one that partly
depends on gcc2.96 and partly gcc3.1. See www.linuxfromscratch.org